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Related: humanitiesRationality: From AI to Zombies - Lesswrongwiki Ebook cover image. Rationality: From AI to Zombies is a 2015 ebook by Eliezer Yudkowsky on human rationality and irrationality in cognitive science. The ebook can be downloaded on a "pay-what-you-want" basis from intelligence.org or viewed on the website readthesequences.com It is an edited and reorganized version of the Sequences, a series of blog posts published to Less Wrong and Overcoming Bias between 2006 and 2009. Rationality: From AI to Zombies serves as a long-form introduction to formative ideas behind Less Wrong, the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, the Center for Applied Rationality, and substantial parts of the effective altruism community. Contents
The Second Story Of Echo And Narcissus Are you listening closely? This is the story you know: "Narcissus was a man who was so in love with himself that he fell in love with his own reflection. Sequences A sequence is a series of multiple posts on Less Wrong on the same topic, to coherently and fully explore a particular thesis. Reading the sequences is the most systematic way to approach the Less Wrong archives. If you'd like an abridged index of the sequences, try XiXiDu's guide, or Academian's guide targeted at people who already have a science background. Benito's Guide aims to systematically fill the reader in on the most important ideas discussed on LessWrong (not just in the sequences). It also begins with a series of videos, which are a friendly introduction, and useful if you enjoy talks and interviews.
Harvest of Grapes – Writings of Connor Creegan 1. The tone of this series doesn’t merit a formal introduction as I would include in an essay or some other form of biographical writing. Instead, I will briefly preface this article with some cursory information about what this series is, my intent in publishing it, and a few other necessary prerequisites. 2. “WIDTPTW” is an abbreviation of “What I Did to Prepare This Week”. Stop Bullshitting Yourself If You Want To Wake Up (From The True Matrix) I’m trying to free your mind Neo. But I can only show you the door. You’re the one who has to walk through it.— Morpheus, The MatrixTweet This I have it all, but I feel a void… I think I fell asleep at the wheel of my life. I’m my very own “Walking Dead.”
Stars in My Pocket Like Bits of Data by Paul Stephens The poetics of information overload. Eric Hu, Drone. © Eric Hu. Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. —Gertrude Stein A human being takes in far more information than he or she can put out. “Stupidity” is a process or strategy by which a human, in response to social denigration of the information that she or he puts out, commits him- or herself to taking in no more information than she or he can put out.
Lev Shestov - Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nietzsche - ToC THE GOOD IN THE TEACHING OF TOLSTOY AND NIETZSCHEPhilosophy and Preaching Preface Chapters 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Translated by Bernard Martin DOSTOEVSKY AND NIETZSCHEThe Philosophy of Tragedy Chapters "On Truth and Lies in a Non-moral Sense" / F. Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of "world history," but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die. _One might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature. There were eternities during which it did not exist. And when it is all over with the human intellect, nothing will have happened.
University of Glasgow Following the launch of the Shestov Studies Society, the first issue of the Shestov Journal came out in 1997, as a bi-lingual (English/ French) publication, that combined the informative role of a newsletter and the wider scope of a magazine devoted to the publication of new critical work as well as to the occasional re-printing of significant exegeses, or even primary texts which are long out of print. So far, five issues of the Shestov journal have been published : Issue nr. 4-5 is devoted to Shestov's previously unpublished correspondence with Martin Buber. Joseph Palmer: Perscuted For Wearing The Beard Recently, I made a special trip up to Evergreen Cemetery in Leominster, Massachusetts to see the grave of Joseph Palmer, a veteran of the War of 1812 and a member of the short-lived Utopian community “the Fruitlands”. I’m not much of a history buff, so why would I drive halfway across the state to seek out the grave of a man who died a century before I was born? It was too interesting of a story not to investigate. The “Crime” He was described as a kind and tolerant man, but life was not easy for Joseph Palmer after he moved to Fitchburg, Massachusetts in 1830.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project Internet History Sourcebooks Project Paul Halsall, Editor Last Modified: Dec 11 | linked pages may have been updated more recently The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. The Scalp Industry Although the origins of the practice of scalping may be lost in the nebulous hinterlands of the past, the industry of scalp hunting has a specific and documented history. Although some of the particulars may be shrouded in rumors, the scalp bounty laws instituted a peculiar economic venture between the Mexican government and, primarily, American citizens. Between 1835 and the 1880s, the Mexican authorities paid private armies to hunt Native Americans, paying per kill and using scalps as receipts. The practice began when the Mexican government could no longer provide adequate protection to its citizens from the marauding Apaches and Comanches.
Contents of Classical Christian Homeschooling: Classical Education at Home Introduction to Classical Education What classical education is, and why anyone would want to return to this style of teaching and learning. Ancient Egyptian painted limestone from 1340 BC of Imeneminet and his wife, Tahka.